Nursing Home Dental Visits

What we do

At Power Dental Practice we have been visiting people in their homes and in nursing homes since the early 1990s. Most weeks one of our Hurstville team members or our dental hygienist makes a nursing home dental visit to an aged care facility. This is an area in which the team work well together and have vast experience.

As part of our commitment to the community we travel out to the elderly who are unable to make it in to see us. Some of these are our existing patients, but most have not been seen before entering full-time care.

We are strong believers in our preventive approach to dentistry so encourage good oral hygiene in nursing homes.

Our nursing home dental team do this by:

Travelling to the facilities to clean residents’ teeth

Fluoride treatment

Advising family and staff on what is best for each patient

Providing regular free Oral Health Education and training for the care staff in nursing homes in our area

These are exceptionally well-received and benefit the residents immensely.

Of course we cannot carry out very complex treatments in Nursing Homes, but the more common procedures we provide are:

On occasion we may ask that the resident be brought to the surgery where the treatment required is too complex, or if the resident requests a more elaborate treatment alternative- for example, to have a root canal therapy on a tooth to enable it to be saved rather than extract it.

We encourage family to be present wherever practical at Nursing Home visits, but understand that this is not always practical, especially where emergency treatment is being carried out. Nonetheless, we are pleased to discuss treatment matters with family members with the resident’s permission.